Disabling the Options button in the Connection Details dialog

[Alvord, Tim]

We kindof have an unusual situation here. We want certain individuals to have full control through the viewer and others not to. So what I ended up doing was to compile a seperate viewer for those that are to have view only which has the appropriate values set and the Options button disabled. The other users who are allowed to modify the server get the standard wide open version.

Thanks for the help,

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: James Weatherall [mailto:jnw "at" realvnc.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 3:24 PM
To: 'Erik Soderquist'; Alvord, Tim; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
Subject: RE: Disabling the Options button in the Connection Details
dialog


Erik:

The user wouldn't have to "crack" the password to get it, they can just
un-obfuscate it.

Tim:

What is it that you are actually trying to achieve by disabling the Options
button?  What is it that your users might do with the Options dialog that is
a problem?  If what you're really trying to do is prevent them from sending
pointer or key events, you should be configuring that on the server, not the
viewer, since there is no way for the viewer to bypass your server
configuration.

Regards,

Wez @ RealVNC Ltd.


-----Original Message-----
From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On
Behalf Of Erik Soderquist
Sent: 28 April 2005 19:26
To: Alvord, Tim; vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
Subject: RE: Disabling the Options button in the Connection Details dialog


personally, we use preconfigured config files for the machines we connect
to. (we are using version 3.3.7) I've included a sample here, the
"restricted=1" line disables changes while the viewer is running. this also
connects without prompting for a host name or password. the password is
store in some kind of encrypted form, so unless the user knows the password
already, or can crack the hashed version here, the user has no choice but to
use the config file to connect. in this example, the hash here is for the
word 'temp' as the password.

---begin copied text---

[connection]
host=host.domain.com
port=5900
password=d54129f271951014
[options]
use_encoding_0=1
use_encoding_1=1
use_encoding_2=1
use_encoding_3=0
use_encoding_4=1
use_encoding_5=1
use_encoding_6=0
use_encoding_7=0
use_encoding_8=0
use_encoding_9=0
use_encoding_10=0
use_encoding_11=0
use_encoding_12=0
use_encoding_13=0
use_encoding_14=0
use_encoding_15=0
use_encoding_16=1
preferred_encoding=5
restricted=1
viewonly=1
fullscreen=0
autoDetect=1
8bit=0
shared=1
swapmouse=0
belldeiconify=1
emulate3=1
emulate3timeout=100
emulate3fuzz=4
disableclipboard=1
localcursor=1
scale_num=1
scale_den=1

---end copied text---

-----Original Message-----
From: vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com [mailto:vnc-list-admin "at" realvnc.com] On
Behalf Of Alvord, Tim
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 14:22
To: vnc-list "at" realvnc.com
Subject: Disabling the Options button in the Connection Details dialog

Is there a way to disabling the Options button in the Connection Details
dialog? I currently launch the viewer from the command line as follows:

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\Viewer.exe SendPointerEvents=0 SendKeyEvents=0 MenuKey=

and I would prefer the user not be able to change these options simply by
clicking on the Options button in the Connection Details dialog. Any ideas?

Tim Alvord
Software Engineer


 
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